SUMMARY:

• Expert in business process and software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications.
• Strong technical, logical, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Experienced in entire system development life cycle from conceptual design through implementation.
• Ability to guide and direct project teams in the requirements gathering, design, and development of complex applications/programs.
• Able to motivate team members to perform to their maximum potential.
• Exceptional organizational and planning skills; adaptable; enjoys new challenges.
• Possess a solid work ethic, an ability to work effectively under critical conditions, and be self - directed.
• I have over 25 years of experience in analysis, design, development, testing, quality control and, implementation of applications.
• I am able to effectively communicate with all levels of management as well as my peers also, I am able to meet deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• I am skilled at working independently or as part of a team.
• I am a motivated person who wants to work in a dynamic environment with numerous learning opportunities and challenges.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

• COBOL File-Aid COBOL II Microsoft Word JCL Abend-Aid
• Microsoft Outlook Panvalet
• CICS Changeman
• VSAM Insync
• XPEDITER TSO/ISPF
• VISO Workbench II Dumpmaster Endevor
• SDF 2 PacMan SQL MQ Series TCP/IP DB2
• CA7 MVS
• IDCAMS Access Excel Oracle 10g
• HTML JavaScript
• SDLC PPM
• Agile DB Visualizer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Peoria, Illinois

Technical Consultant Mainframe

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and test core applications that run on mainframe systems
• Analyzes the technical and business requirements, including functional and non- functional requirements, to develop a systems solution.
• Work closely with business partners to understand business requirements to design quality technical solutions that align with business and IT strategies and comply with the organization's architectural standards.
• Conduct various proof of concepts on new technologies and work with senior architects to develop recommendations that align with Illinois Confidential ’s IT strategy.
• Provide system software support for Illinois Confidential ’s mainframe applications and components.
• Resolve problems that result in a decreased time to improve quality, enhance flexibility.

Technologies Utilized: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Technical Consultant/ Business Analyst/Mainframe Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in a role both as a Business Analyst and a Mainframe Programmer on Agile team.
• Work closely with Investment Staff and/or Global Investment and Institutional Client Services (GICS) managers to expose informational, analytical, or workflow-optimizing needs. Regularly and independently interacts with business partners of varying associate/management levels to ensure clarity of the problem/opportunity and elicit business requirements. Estimate the size of the effort required to complete complex, moderate to large scale projects.
• Analyze, documents, designs, prototypes, implements, and maintain products that address business needs and achieve strategic goals. This includes analyzing, documenting, researching, processing and administering investment data; analyzing, documenting, developing and deploying reports; and/or analyzing, documenting, designing, creating, and testing software applications.
• Execute and manage all aspects and phases of testing initiatives for moderate to large-sized system implementations and/or enhancement projects. Responsible for test data setup and coordination of effort and resources/testers throughout unit, system, and user acceptance testing. Participate in the development of user documentation and manuals, training material, and/or job aids. Supports initial implementation of significant system changes.
• Assist in the support of systems, including taking responsibility for the resolution of low to moderately complex on-call issues, monitoring the system, and communicating with the vendors regarding problems, to ensure the system is functioning. Investigates, diagnoses, isolates, and de-bugs issues and performs problem resolution. Document resolution appropriately. Escalate issue to Solutions Consultants, Sr. Solutions Consultants, Project Leads, or Project Managers if a solution cannot be determined.
• Mentor and coaches less experienced Solutions Analysts and less experienced associates across
• Continuously seeks to expand knowledge of Investments practice and theory to create efficiencies and/or mitigate risk via people/process/technology changes for the business.

Technologies Utilized: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, Endeavor, Agile, DB Visualizer, OMNI

Confidential, Madison, WI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with client subject matter experts to finalize transaction configuration requirements; gather and document.
• Work with client and senior analysts to resolve client-reported system issues.
• Update design documentation. repare as-built documentation.
• Support users during User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Perform system functional review, as needed.
• Work with business users to define and analyze problems.
• Maintains and manages systems key to the function that is supported.
• Help design and implement new functional systems.
• Consider the implications of business solutions to the current and future environment.
• Devise or modify procedures to solve problems considering resources, time and form of desired results.
• Acts as subject-matter expert on business processes of assigned area.
• Understands and applies principles, concepts, theories, technologies and standards of professional field.
• Develop and apply specialized knowledge within own discipline.
• Assists program or process development and implementation.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Technical Consultant/IT

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Joint Application Development sessions with stakeholders throughout Confidential to resolve open issues.
• Worked closely with my business units to identify application development solutions.
• Develop new or modified programs, reuse of existing code or a combination of the available alternatives.
• Worked parallel with the client server team while they were implementing Portia software for their investment management system.
• Worked within time constraints to meet deadlines. Identified and communicated issues with project deliverables.
• Developed exceptional communication skills to interact with business units and team members.
• Developed workflow, screen mock-ups, and conversion requirements.
• Documented implemented and provided on-going support for the entire mainframe securities investment system.
• Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives, via feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Conducted business analysis, project assessment and feasibility determination.
• Defined and introduced the project, team members' roles, and key deliverables.
• Mapped out timelines, milestones, communication processes, question and answer session.
• Prioritized business and systems problems; analyzed legislation and conducted impact analysis.
• Prepared business process models; used Visio to create use case diagrams.
• Designed test plans and test cases for integration, system, acceptance, and regression tests for User Acceptance Testing.

Technologies Utilized: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, FTP, SDF2, Workbench,Insync, Dumpmaster, VSE operating system

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Managed several large complex projects.
• Maintained and developed new code for the Commercial Farm Team. Wrote, managed, and implemented several large file conversions.
• Worked with business users to gather requirements and translate requirements into functional specs.
• Reviewed the functional specs from a support perspective to ensure no downstream impact.
• Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives, via feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Developed quality assurance test scripts for all patches, modifications and upgrades.
• Provided users with documentation on current process and participated in user acceptance testing.

Technologies Utilized: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, FTP, SDF2, ChangemanMQ/Series, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, XPEDITER

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Programmer Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead Programmer Analyst for a team of five.
• Performed analysis for several systems on redesigns, new development, and maintenance projects.
• Prioritized outstanding defects and system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.
• Met with users on a regular basis to design new development, get input on maintenance requests and tested all projects.
• Involved in creation of Test Plan, test cases according to the Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and Test Cases.
• Reviewed the Business Requirements, Functional Specification and Use case documents to carry out the testing activities.

Technologies Utilized: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, FTP, SDF2, Workbench

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consulted at several insurance companies a major bank and State Government.
• Worked with several personality types and maintained a good working relationship.
• Served as team member on several file conversions.
• Rewrote and tested the DI Reinsurance Audit reporting system using COBOL and VSAM files.
• Responsible for data and file conversions using COBOL and CICS in a mainframe environment.
• Performed analysis for several systems on redesigns, new development, and maintenance projects.
• Determined user/business/functional requirements.
• Created vision, scope, and use case documents; business process models, use case diagrams, activity diagrams.
• Provided internal support and training for applications

Technologies Utilized: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, FTP, SDF2, ChangemanMQ/Series, File-Aid, Abendaid